Does the information by Chmee here (fourth post down from the top) help? Because the thread was from 2008, you will need to hunt for the appropriate files elsewhere as the links he listed appear to be dead. You may also need different versions of the files he mentioned. Fair warning, it doesn't look like the process is that easy.

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yes some commands will change...eg no sudo on puppy...gedit would be a problem too. Someone more familiar may simply need to translate the technique. note sudo gedit could simply become geany for example.
Could try each command in turn and ask whenever it fails for specific help.

I had a speedtouch years ago...very similar...fortunately someone had made a script plus it built a driver for it.
I got banned when I complained that no one had helped...funny how times change

hmm this seems to refer to a particular version.
Support for usb modems on linux outside of the US has always been poor and you may simply not have pppoa support in the puppy you have.
The line mentioned is a plugin for pppd from what I gather.... what error messages do you get if any?

The kernel modules for your type of ADSL modem have never been enabled in the kernel configuration of any Puppy version, possibly because these drivers also require additional "PPP over ATM" network drivers.

This looks very similar to what I needed for my speedtouch 330...indeed that's mentioned.... same drivers different settings maybe.

I just mention that cos I got the speedtouch driver script which built what I needed on puppy 2 (my introduction to linux )...I wonder if its still of use.
http://steve-parker.org/speedtouchconf/
Just lobbing that one in... was 8 years ago I did all this as a noob so memory is rusty.

Step back and look at the big picture:
these types of (ADSL) modems are obscure, as evidenced by the fact that in the 10 year history of Puppy Linux only a handful of people have ever asked about them. And these models are also quite old.
Little wonder that official Puppy releases don't support them. The same principle applies to RAID support, LVM support, etc.

The big question is: how important is this particular modem to you? Why not just go out and get a different model?
- if you choose a model with ethernet connection, rather than USB, NO DRIVERS will be required to connect to Puppy.
- newer models will support modern and faster connection standards (ADSL2, ADSL2+)
Such modems can be bought on eBay for next-to-nothing. Heck, I have a box of old computer equipment upstairs gathering dust, from which I could give you an old Netgear DM602 modem.

Then again, there may be some bizarre reason why you're locked into using that Sagem modem - maybe the internet service provider has added some form of hardware-lockdown?
In this scenario, you shouldn't be fussy about what version of Puppy to use, but aim for whatever Puppy release will support your hardware.

Why is it a problem to use Lucid as your main OS? Many people on this forum remain staunchly attached to this particular release, and ironically, when a new innovation or driver becomes available for the latest Slacko (or Precise) the Lucid users can get annoyed!
Wary? That release has a quasi-religious following.
People on this forum seem to get irrationally attached to one Puppy version or another.
Just go with what works ... or change your hardware.

Must comment that there were thousands...maybe millions of these modems around at the time...every isp (in Europe) was lobbing them out... what was obscure was puppies lack of support...all the big distros did and of course every version of windows...having one did stop me using linux for a year since no distro my machine could handle supported it. I did get help from elsewhere in the end to get it running on puppy and I was certainly not alone in needing this support. Interestingly enough it worked better on linux and I used to share the internet on the connected machine with the other one.

Yes routers are easy peasy... it does make sense to grab one if you can then yer distro can use its basic ethernet drivers
In my case I got a wired router for 50p plus post of ebay.

I've tried to do what stated in http://steve-parker.org/speedtouchconf/, without success: running ./speedtouchconf.sh it says that doesn't find gcc nor make, though PPM says I have them (I use a Live USB with Slacko 5.7). And in that page says:

And I'm not very interested in PSIP. So for me it's not so important that with Slacko and the Sagem USB modem one can get the internet. But perhaps for someone could be useful some day ... Linux in general and light distros like Puppy in particular are good alternatives to make old computers (and peripherals) be able to work ...

In the past I've used other versions or flavours of Puppy. I don't update very often. When I do it I normally choose the most (newer) recommended (official/main) version of the download page (that's why now I use Slacko 5.7). The support for the desktop version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) expired last year, in 2013, so this is one of the reasons because I left it (after that I used Precise and now Slacko 5.7). Perhaps in Puppy this doesn't matter, but I'm more used to other distros (though I've been using Puppy for some years already).

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